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Matthew Palmer’s Step-by-Step Guide to Watercolour Painting
by Matthew Palmer
Take a masterclass with artist Matthew Palmer in this comprehensive guide to watercolour painting.
This comprehensive step-by-step guide to producing landscapes and seascapes in watercolour is a natural progression in learning from Matthew Palmer’s previous title Watercolour for the Absolute Beginner. Providing a more complete course in painting, this latest book explores in further detail the key techniques used in watercolour painting, including the application of resists; colour mixing; applying natural-looking foliage to trees and woodlands; use of dry-brush technique in depicting intricate detail, and using scratch-out techniques to add sparkle and movement to water.
A six-step exercise helps demonstrate the stages of creating a landscape scene of snowy hills and dales including laying the initial wash, lifting out highlights on the hills, and applying shadow. The book also features five full step-by-step projects to help readers develop their watercolour painting skills, featuring a waterfall scene, a poppy field with country cottage and New York in autumn-time; each accompanied with a full-size outline.
Matthew Palmer’s Step-by-Step Guide to Watercolour Painting is the perfect companion for artists who have mastered the rudiments of the medium but are keen to improve their skills, develop their own style, and progress further on their journey to painting success.
About Matthew Palmer
Matthew Palmer is one of the SAA’s most renowned demonstrators, and his classes are particularly popular with beginners. He has been painting seriously for twenty years and specialises in landscapes, still life and animals. He has his own studio at his home in Derbyshire and teaches over 150 people per week, as well as running watercolour workshops and holidays. He has many personal exhibitions, participates in several art shows and appears regularly on the Painting and Drawing Channel.
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Stage 1
The first stage is to paint the area that you wish to autumnise with a dark colour. When doing grassy areas or hillsides a green is usually a good choice for a basecoat, but for an autumnal scene I would recommend brown or even a dirty black.
Although there are a lot of products on the market for scenery, in my opinion there isn’t one that really simulates a muddy/woody floor like I imagine it. One day when thinking how to create a realistic effect while making myself a mug of tea, after finding I had ran out of coffee. Being my clumsy self I had split the teabag as I took it out of the mug, and it fell onto the work surface and looked exactly like the effect I was after. You can probably see by now where this going.
In the picture above you can see the ground work after being given a coat of loose tea scattered on top of Deluxe Materials Speed Bond. I have found that tea from a used teabag is actually darker than that of an unused bag so here I have opted for used tea leaves.
Stage 3
Now I installed the man-made objects, such as this fence. I prefer to do this at this stage regardless of the season I am modelling, as you will find that as soon as something is put outside in the real world nature starts to take its effect upon it. Plonking the fence down after all the foliage was added just wouldn’t look right!
Stage 4
Here I added some rubberised horsehair, which can be found in craft shops. You don’t have to use this, instead you can use lichen which works as well. I prefer the horsehair as it gives a slightly wilder look to the final model.
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